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[Documentation] Replacing individual entries with uutils?
Background: I recently semi-broke my laptop because coreutils "mount" was not working at all when I did a few changes.
I got busybox so I can remount the hdd.
Would it be possible to use uutils, a statically compiled variant, but of "mount"? I'd love to use that if that is possiblebut I don't know whether it is possible. If it is possible, could you perhaps add a section about this to the main README?
First of all, mount
is not in the coreutils. It's from the util-linux
package instead, for which we don't have an alternative. However, if you want to replace a single util like ls
, you can follow the instructions to build from source with GNU make: https://uutils.github.io/user/build.html#gnu-make-1, or go to the subdirectory of ls
(src/uu/ls
) and run cargo install .
or even easier, run cargo install uu_ls
, because each util is published as a separate crate with a uu_
prefix.